Serge Mombo, a leading football official in Gabon, has been arrested after being accused of sexually abusing young players and demanding sex as a condition of them securing places in national teams, the Guardian understands.
Mombo, was re-elected as president of La Ligue de l’Estuaire, Gabon’s senior football league, in June 2021 and served as the kit man for Gabon’s senior men’s team at the African Cup of Nations in Cameroon. Mombo, a former policeman and referee, has denied the abuse claims, made by alleged victims team and witnesses to the Guardian earlier this month.
